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Why face groups are your best friend - Meshmixer Tutorial
From the course: Meshmixer Essential Training
Why face groups are your best friend
- [Instructor] Another consideration when you are sculpting with digital clay is how to influence, or manipulate, certain areas on your mesh accurately. I've imported a sphere here, which I will just turn on Wireframe by pressing W. Just a plain sphere that you can get by going to file to import sphere. And, you can use what's called Face Groups. So, in order to see this, you need a couple of things. Make sure that you're in the Meshmixer mode. It's the easiest way to see the face groups. And if you hold down the space bar, make sure that your color, right here let me move this sphere aside. Make sure that your color, right here, is set to this one. This is vertex color, this is paint that would show up in 3D printing. But we want the informational colors that mesh mixer does. So make sure that this one is dark, or enabled. The other way to do that is to go to file, to preferences, and under preferences under mesh color mode, make sure it's on group color. So the way that this works…
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Intro to the fun world of playing with digital clay1m 11s
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Inspiration is everywhere!6m 53s
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Other tools on the market for sculpting and modeling4m 53s
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Basic overview of sculpting tools7m 7s
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Sculpting tool modifiers9m 16s
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What is meshmixing? (The whole program is named after this!)4m 51s
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More advanced meshmixing11m 53s
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What about adding color?8m 13s
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How shaders affect modeling3m 20s
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Common modeling problems: Self-intersections and normals4m 41s
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Using the Make Solid tool to fix everything6m 36s
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Why face groups are your best friend6m 16s
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Transform! (Or, more rightly: Using the transform tools)6m 19s
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Using shapes to influence other shapes11m 18s
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Using the attract brushes8m 1s
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Don't be constrained by what the world tells you can be done5m 2s
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3D printing considerations4m 59s
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